a ybw at last!

Old Father Spoons was down Dirk before me this am but sadly his young fella started to kick off so it was home for an early bath for him! This left me ample time to stroll down & steal a fine yellow-browed warbler from him - perfect really!

A quick stats update - ybw is 142 for the year, which is my 2nd highest total ever, after 149 in 2012 and 141 in 2010. 145 should be reasonably gettable I'd say with gank like pochard, scaup & goldeneye still to come, with any luck!

more movement through the crease

What with all the excitement of bluetails, I've clean forgot to declare all the other stuff I've been seeing! Best of the rest was male ring ouzel from the upstairs jax window as I went to pee! Then brambling (unseasonal and tricky - not annual), redpoll, shelduck and sand martin - its all go!

red-flanked bluetail on my patch!!!

Woohoo! All courtesy of "old spoons" cronin - he da man! I verified it tho, and it is one! Corking!